Mr. O’Brien (born February 4, 1961) is a former alpine skier who represented Estonia in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and prior to that, for the United Kingdom in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. O'Brien was born and raised in Montreal and holds Estonian and British citizenship, as well as Canadian.
His mother, architect Tiiu Tammist, immigrated to Canada from Estonia in the late 1940s via Sweden and England as a child, and his father was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland. O’Brien attended schools in Montreal and went on to Middlebury College in Vermont, where he received a BA degree in physics and economics and was a member of Middlebury's alpine ski team. He then earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
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